{"id":1378,"date":"2012-05-25T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:57:01","slug":"bacons-picture-map-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2012\/bacons-picture-map-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon&#8217;s Picture Map of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon4.jpg\" alt=\"bacon4\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1840\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon4.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon4-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently managed to get my hands on one of my favourite maps of London. It is produced by G.W. Bacon and Co. Ltd and dates from around 1908. I like it for its clear cartography, the selection of pseudo 3D buildings (nice to see UCL in there) and the simplicity of the street network (only major roads are shown). The muted colours used add to the uncluttered feel of the map and gives visitors the impression of clear routes to follow between London&#8217;s landmarks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon2.jpg\" alt=\"bacon2\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1840\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon2.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon2-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favourite aspect of the map is the inclusion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franco-British_Exhibition_(1908)\" target=\"_blank\">Franco-British Exhibition <\/a>and 1908 Olympics stadium (below). You can see that transport demands back then were slightly less than they are now with only two Tube stations serving the site <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood_Lane_(Central_line)_tube_station\">Wood Lane<\/a> (on the Central Line, now disused) and\u00a0Exhibition (which I think is now the current <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood_Lane_tube_station\">Wood Lane<\/a>). The area is now home to BBC Television Centre and Westfield Shopping Centre (bring back the exhibition\u00a0architecture\u00a0I say).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon5.jpg\" alt=\"bacon5\" width=\"1840\" height=\"3264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon5.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon5-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bacon5-577x1024.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1840px) 100vw, 1840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t seem to find much information about the map such as the exact date, approximate value, number printed etc so if anyone knows any more please get in touch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently managed to get my hands on one of my favourite maps of London. It is produced by G.W. Bacon and Co. Ltd and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[558,17,557,559,562,560,561],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic","tag-558","tag-3d","tag-bacon","tag-exhibition","tag-franco-british","tag-olympics","tag-picture-map"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}